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“Lazily riffing on recent question of the shortest-distance hat-trick. What is the longest? Surely a dead-ball specialist, maybe even a hat-trick of free-kicks?” tweets Rob Phillips.
Let’s start with a couple of brilliant effort at the Dell in the 1990s. In more innocent times, Matt Le Tissier scored a mesmeric hat-trick against Norwich in February 1990. With the caveat that we failed our GPS GCSE, we reckon the combined distance of his three goals was around 53 yards. And yes, that is Richard Keys on commentary.
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